characteristic of inheres in geospatial name Country country name Specimen Collection Location - Country A textual entity that denotes a geographic location that is a site or part of a site that is identified as a country in the political geography. Damion Dooley's note: A 'sovereign state' entity should have attribute or relationships to measurables - population, size, name, etc. So e.g. " 'country name' inheres in some 'sovereign state/country'". Also note historical name issue (Myanmar vs Burma) and diplomatic name issue (Taiwan vs "Republic of China"). Both point to needing a single entity with multiple names. NIAID GSCID-BRC metadata working group Person: Chris Stoeckert, Jie Zheng Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country country name metadata complete